28.04.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to you as a landlord and requesting a response.
It concerns a rental agreement from 01.04.2012 - 31.03.2015. In this rental agreement, a prepayment of operating costs of €150.00 was requested. The landlord and the te...
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03.06.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
And once again, "heating turned off":
It is to be assumed that our landlord turned off the heating about 4 weeks ago due to various disputes. Absolutely nothing is working, all radiators remain cold day and night - hot water is still functioning. Ho...
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22.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
There seems to be no peace....
... therefore we will soon be availing ourselves of the services of a local lawyer. However, before that, a very important, as I find it, exciting question. Just now we received a fax (for the first time) from a lawyer...
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15.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear legal counsel,
I am currently facing a behavioral issue of purely legal nature. I have already inquired about the issue here, but was unable to find an appropriate answer in relation to the correct behavior in my situation. Here is the situatio...
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13.05.2014 | answered by Mikael Varol
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have one final question regarding the matter mentioned multiple times:
We have rented a property, the rent is covered by the job center. The property is actually larger and slightly more expensive than the maximum rate allowed ...
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01.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
Due to various disputes with the landlord, we currently have the following question:
Upon moving into a rental property (a 2-family house), it was stated that a garage directly adjacent to the property could be rented shortly aft...
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29.04.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello,
for two years I have been using a car registered in my name. For tax reasons, the vehicle is linked to my part-time IT consulting business.
The private use amounts to 86%.
I now want to sell this car without being liable for any defects.
F...
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25.11.2011 | answered by Bernhard Müller
Dear Sir or Madam,
Regarding the situation: A is a valued long-term private customer of B, who, due to liquidity problems in his company at the time of ordering in 2009, had to downsize or close his business as he needed financial state support. B o...
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12.09.2011 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello,
I (= Seller) have entered into a notarial purchase agreement for a property with a GbR consisting of 2 partners (= Buyer). The buyers have been granted a right of withdrawal in this agreement and have duly exercised this right in terms of tim...
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18.08.2011 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
Hello - I have been working for a Florida-based company since 1989. I am German, living and working in Germany. I am a food broker, supplying food to customers of the American military and embassies in Europe. I am paid in US dollars and pay my taxes...
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04.06.2011 | answered by Bernhard Müller
On 01.11.06 we signed a standard rental agreement with indefinite term with two working life partners (without children). They have rented our semi-detached house in 22869 Schenefeld (Schleswig-Holstein). At the time of signing, it was verbally commu...
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25.05.2011 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
With a notarial contract, we acquired a 2-family house based on a life annuity and lifelong right of residence for the ground floor. We have been calculating the operating costs with the tenant upstairs and the beneficiary on the ...
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12.05.2011 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello,
I have been renting an apartment with my boyfriend since 01.02.2007, both of us are listed in the rental agreement.
On 17.05.2010, our landlord informed us that he wants to sell the apartment we are renting. He offered us to buy the apartment...
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27.04.2011 | answered by Tobias Rösemeier
Dear Sir or Madam,
I run a company for household clearances and rubbish removal.
My advertising is accessible through google. On 11.04.11 I was called by a customer and asked for a site visit in order to provide a quote. The visit took place on 18....
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20.04.2011 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Lawyer,
I am sending you my case, which I have now submitted to the field of labor law, but may also fall under contract law:
I work as a self-employed business owner in Clinical Research as a Consultant.
I have had a freelance employee contra...
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18.04.2011 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
Dear Sir or Madam,
after the resignation of the former treasurer of an emergency relief association, the board has determined that the above-mentioned treasurer acted against the statutes and handled the funds of the association as they pleased. Our...
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22.11.2010 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
Hello,
I have been employed at a company for 11 years now, and I plan to resign at the end of the month. However, I do not have an employment contract. I have heard that in this case, the statutory notice period of 4 weeks applies. However, my boss ...
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26.07.2010 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
Hello,
we (3 part-time employees) have been working 80 hours per month for several years. Now our boss wants us to work 86 hours, for the same pay. Essentially, 6 hours per month for free.
The reasoning is 12 months x 80 hours = 960 hours/year. How...
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22.07.2010 | answered by Bernhard Müller
My aunt and my uncle, who passed away 3 years ago, financed a condominium for one of their two biological daughters. The beneficiary daughter is listed in the land register and it was orally agreed that the parents would have the right to live there ...
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21.02.2010 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Good day!
In an older post, I have already read that a change termination can be issued before the end of parental leave. My parental leave ends in spring '10; I have been with the company for eight years. I am a single parent with one child.
I had a...
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01.02.2010 | answered by Bernhard Müller
Hello,
I have received a penalty order accusing me of property damage and attempted coercion. I am accused of kicking off the left side mirror of an Audi after a night at Oktoberfest in Munich. The mirror was heavily damaged, causing approximately 3...
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25.01.2010 | answered by Bernhard Müller
I have accepted a position in field service (employee in the field, NOT on a §84 HGB basis) from a fixed-term employee leasing company and it was verbally agreed in advance that for the first two months, a fixed salary would be paid as a transitional...
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30.12.2009 | answered by Andreas Scholz
We have a serious problem. My wife and I wanted to purchase a property at the beginning of 2009, partially for our own use and partially to rent to my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law, who has custody of a 9-year-old girl from a previous relationshi...
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07.12.2009 | answered by Andreas Scholz
Dear Sir or Madam,
Several years ago, I founded a partnership with other individuals to acquire and rent out a multi-family residential building.
Due to various disputes within our company, I terminated my shareholding on December 31, 2008. The ter...
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02.12.2009 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Dear lawyers,
please send me a binding price offer for answering or creating two legally valid contracts, taking into account my requirements:
1./
For the coordination of the personal inheritance matter, we need a legally valid template regarding ...
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